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  • The Lieutenant of Kouta

    by Massa Makan Diabaté ...
    Translated by Shane Auerbach, David Yost ...
    Series series African Humanities and the Arts
    The Lieutenant of Kouta is the first novel in Massa Makan Diabaté’s award-winning trilogy. Featuring an introduction by leading Diabaté scholar Cheick M. Chérif Keïta and Shane Auerbach, it tells the story, part tragicomic and part hagiographic, of an African lieutenant in the French Army who returns as a decorated hero from the battlefields of Europe to Kouta, a fictionalized version of the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    A Novel

    by Uzodinma Iweala ...
    The harrowing, utterly original debut novel about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country—now a critically-acclaimed Netflix original film directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Idris Elba."Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures the horror of ethnic violence in all its brutality and the vulnerability of youth in all its ... Read more

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  • Glory

    A Novel

    by NoViolet Bulawayo ...
    **2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST“Manifoldly clever…brilliant… ‘Glory’ is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny.” —Violet Kupersmith, The New York Times Book Review"Genius."—#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason ReynoldsFrom the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, an exhilarating ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Centurions

    by Jean Larteguy ...
    Translated by Xan Fielding ...
    The military cult classic with resonance to the wars in Iraq and Vietnam—now back in printWhen The Centurions was first published in 1960, readers were riveted by the thrilling account of soldiers fighting for survival in hostile environments. They were equally transfixed by the chilling moral question the novel posed: how to fight when the “age of heroics is over.” As relevant today as it was ... Read more

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  • Waiting for the Waters to Rise

    by Maryse Condé ...
    Translated by Richard Philcox ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATUREBabakar is an African doctor living alone until the child Anaïs comes into his life. Forced to abandon his solitude, he takes her to Haiti in search of her family.In May 2020, we published The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana by Maryse Conde; one of our most high-profile publications to date. Here’s a selection of the ... Read more

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  • Retief

    The Yillian Way

    by Keith Laumer ...
    The ceremonious protocol of the Yills was impressive, colorful, and, in the long run, deadly! It was up to Jame Retief to figure out how to respond to the Yill's overtures in the correct manner; all the while keeping his superiors from making a deadly mistake. Only one man could think quickly enough to get the job done! ... Read more

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  • Allah is Not Obliged

    by Ahmadou Kourouma ...
    ALLAH IS NOT OBLIGED TO BE FAIR ABOUT ALL THE THINGS HE DOES HERE ON EARTH.These are the words of the boy soldier Birahima in the final masterpiece by one of Africa’s most celebrated writers, Ahmadou Kourouma. When ten-year-old Birahima's mother dies, he leaves his native village in the Ivory Coast, accompanied by the sorcerer and cook Yacouba, to search for his aunt Mahan. Crossing the border ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Culinary Chronicles of the Court Flower: Volume 4

    by Miri Mikawa ...
    Series Book 4 - Culinary Chronicles of the Court Flower
    Just after Rimi and Shusei had vowed to cast away their feelings for each other, Emperor Shohi asked Rimi to become his empress. Now, Rimi is spending her days on edge. Suddenly, the Quinary Dragon falls ill, and Rimi travels to the old capital of Hanin to find a cure. There she discovers a mirror, and strange things start to happen around her, including a bedridden Shohi whom Rimi needs to make ... Read more

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  • On Leave

    A Novel

    by Daniel Anselme, David Bellos ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    A long-lost French novel in which three soldiers return home from an unpopular, unspeakable warWhen On Leave was published in Paris in 1957, as France's engagement in Algeria became ever more bloody, it told people things they did not want to hear. It vividly described what it was like for soldiers to return home from an unpopular war in a faraway place. The book received a handful of reviews, it ... Read more

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  • The Yillian Way

    by Keith Laumer ...
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  • The Black Terrorist

    by Tierno Monénembo ...
    Translated by C. Dickson ...
    The Black Terrorist is a fictional account built around the true, extraordinary, but little-known story of Addi Bâ. Addi Bâ was born in Guinea about 1916, brought to France in the late 1930s, and became a riflemen in the Twelfth Regiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais (African soldiers from French colonies) fighting for France during World War II. Captured after the Battle of the Meuse, Addi escapes ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Yam Child and Other Tales From West Africa

    African Fireside Classics, #2

    by A. Sakyiama ...
    Series Book 2 - African Fireside Classics
    From talking yam tubers and polite little boys who throw up money, to the deliciously scary story of a disrespectful little girl who sets out to find something to see, this second collection of stories in the African Fireside Classics series has something for everyone. ... Read more

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